Pierre Gagnier is a

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from

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. Since

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, he has served as the mayor of the

Ahuntsic-Cartierville Ahuntsic-Cartierville ( (local accent)) is a borough (''arrondissement'') of the city of Montreal, Quebec, Canada. The borough was created following the 2002 municipal reorganization of Montreal. It comprises two main neighbourhoods, Ahuntsic, ...

borough. He was a member of the

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municipal political party. On December 27, 2010, he announced that he would quit Projet Montréal and sit as an independent. He reaffiliated with the new

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in 2013. Gagnier had previously served as a city councillor for the Cartierville district from 1990 to 1998. Originally elected as a member of the Parti municipal de Montréal, he was also at one time the vice president of

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and served as former mayor Pierre Bourque's economic development advisor in the late 1990s. In the early 1990s, he was the leader of the

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and leader of the official opposition at

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until October 1993.

Electoral record (incomplete)

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Pierre Gagnier (Projet Montreal)Ahuntsic-Cartierville Borough Council
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